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Well its an old thread. But the hell with it. Im also on the synesthesia wagon.
Like many i put colors to sound, names, words, letters and numbers.
Well in sound like music it mostly bass, drums or any lowpitched sounds is where i put any colors. I feel colors aswell. They all have different feels of texture and taste.
I thought it was totally normal until.. well I saw a woman on tv whom had it talking about it.
I like it this way though. I also tend to feel people as different colors aswell.
Might be necroing... but I thought it would be better to necro than to create an unnecessary brand-new thread.
I do, though not as much as my sister it seems. I associate colors with letters and numbers, I can picture shapes and colors when listening to music (the colors there seem to be pretty inconsistent, but hey, music isn't one long note), and when I hear certain noises my teeth hurt.
Recently my brother and dad were setting up the artificial Christmas tree, that fake pine needle cshhh noise made my lower two molars hurt terribly. I've never had my molars hurt before. Kids in elementary used to scrape their shoes against that woven-type carpet, because they knew I didn't like it. That hurt too. And it hurt my heart. :(
My sister is crazy though, all of her letters and numbers have colors, only most of mine do. And several of mine are shades of blue (not that I control it, but I find that rather suspicious). She also has the teeth thing. My mom has the teeth thing (her same teeth hurt with the tree!), my dad has letter/color, and my brother has sound/color/shape.
It gets stronger when I'm tired, and crazy on the one instance where I was high. I want to paint/draw some songs, but it would be hard to pick where in the song to draw :)
If you're curious as to what colors I see, here's a chart. I took a test where it gave me letters and I had to pick the colors, whcih is why there is a bit of variation. This is the summary of what I picked.
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That would be cool! Get high again and draw Shpongle!Quote:
Originally Posted by NewArtemis
I hear colors sometimes, mostly at night, but it's not as intense NewArtemis described.
To clarify the test results:
For the number 1, it was kind of like iridescent pink and black, but it was mostly black. 4 and B confused me, sometimes B was red, sometimes blue, four was sometimes green and sometimes brown. I'm inclined to say it's green.
It's difficult to describe this stuff too - I was trying to describe part of a song to my friend and said "It rolls on the ground, just like thunder." And she replied, "Yeah, cause that totally helps." How do you guys describe it?
(And in case you were curious, it's a bass noise, low, sustained, and rumbling, and looks like a dust wave or a wave wave.)
Haven't given it much thought and I'm not even sure if it's normal or not, but whenever someone mentions an object or activity or anything like that, the first thing my memory does is conjure up what it feels like to touch and probe that object or perform that activity. After that an image of it comes to mind along with a taste or smell. Always the senastion of touching it first though. When I watch a movie and someone's firing a gun, I always get the feeling of holding a gun myself, pulling the trigger and feeling the kick.
If you say "spoon", I'll immediately get the sensation of holding and touching the spoons we have at home. What they feel like when I put them in my mouth. Often it's very realistic, like I'm doing it for real.
Had alot of fun doing this as a kid as I could conjure up any taste I'd tasted before. Used to visualize myself walking around in an empty mall, gorging myself on ice cream and grilled chicken. Conjuring up tastes is just as simple and combine that with how it feels to eat a chicken and I start drooling like crazy.
Never talked to anyone about this before except recently with a few friends, they don't experience it nearly as vivid as I do. But like I said, I might be completely normal and this might be something most people can do. Just felt like getting it out there :)